No one hates a bad teacher more than a good teacher,” Arne Duncan remarked in 2009. No one talks as bluntly about K-12 education as President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary once did. The next ...

Every year over two million workers are seriously injured at work, and over 5,000 workers lose their lives on the job. The ...

A Rural New Deal is urgently needed to help revitalize small towns and rural communities. That should be good news enough.

Maria used to think of her future in terms of shifts, not decades. On good weeks, she could pick up extra nights at the ...

The Biden Administration has made root-and-branch reconstruction of antitrust law and competition policy a centerpiece of its economic agenda. This moment was overdue. For decades, big business-friend ...

The environmental organization I lead was born out of a desire for change—revolutionary change at the time—to the reality that people were living in 1970. To make tap water safe to drink and air safe ...

Richard Reeves wants his readers to understand that it’s no accident income inequality is rising and the rich are pulling away from everyone else. In fact, he wants them to accept their fair share of ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

The rise and sustained power of the right has been the primary theme of American political history since the late 1970s. From Ronald Reagan’s election and transformative first year in the White House, ...

On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, Georgia voters cast their ballots in two high stakes Senate races to determine who would represent the state of Georgia, which political party would control the Senate, ...

We are at a pivotal moment in the writing of this country’s story of democracy. In cities and towns across America, something remarkable is underway. Far from the toxicity of our national politics, ...